Against Eunomius
Classic translation
4th c. · Polemics & Heresiology · English translation, 1890
Source edition: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II (ed. Schaff & Wace, 1890–1900)
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Contents
Book 1
- Preface.—It is Useless to Attempt to Benefit Those Who Will Not Accept Help
- We Have Been Justly Provoked to Make This Answer, Being Stung by Eunomius'…
- We See Nothing Remarkable in Logical Force in the Treatise of Eunomius, and So…
- Eunomius Displays Much Folly and Fine Writing, but Very Little Seriousness…
- His Peculiar Caricature of the Bishops, Eustathius of Armenia and Basil of…
- A Notice of Aetius, Eunomius' Master in Heresy, and of Eunomius Himself…
- Eunomius Himself Proves That the Confession of Faith Which He Made Was Not…
- Facts Show That the Terms of Abuse Which He Has Employed Against Basil Are More…
- In Charging Basil With Not Defending His Faith at the Time of the 'Trials,' He…
- All His Insulting Epithets Are Shewn by Facts to Be False
- The Sophistry Which He Employs to Prove Our Acknowledgment That He Had Been…
- His Charge of Cowardice is Baseless: for Basil Displayed the Highest Courage…
- Résumé of His Dogmatic Teaching. Objections to it in Detail
- He Did Wrong, When Mentioning the Doctrines of Salvation, in Adopting Terms of…
- He Does Wrong in Making the Being of the Father Alone Proper and Supreme…
- Examination of the Meaning of 'Subjection:' in That He Says That the Nature of…
- Discussion as to the Exact Nature of the 'Energies' Which, This Man Declares…
- He Has No Reason for Distinguishing a Plurality of Beings in the Trinity. He…
- His Acknowledgment That the Divine Being is 'Single' is Only Verbal
- He Does Wrong in Assuming, to Account for the Existence of the Only-Begotten…
- The Blasphemy of These Heretics is Worse Than the Jewish Unbelief
- He Has No Right to Assert a Greater and Less in the Divine Being. A Systematic…
- These Doctrines of Our Faith Witnessed to and Confirmed by Scripture Passages
- His Elaborate Account of Degrees and Differences in 'Works' and 'Energies'…
- He Who Asserts That the Father is 'Prior' to the Son With Any Thought of an…
- It Will Not Do to Apply This Conception, as Drawn Out Above, of the Father and…
- He Falsely Imagines That the Same Energies Produce the Same Works, and That…
- He Falsely Imagines That We Can Have an Unalterable Series of Harmonious…
- He Vainly Thinks That the Doubt About the Energies is to Be Solved by the…
- There is No Word of God That Commands Such Investigations: the Uselessness of…
- The Observations Made by Watching Providence Are Sufficient to Give Us the…
- His Dictum That 'the Manner of the Likeness Must Follow the Manner of the…
- He Declares Falsely That 'the Manner of the Generation is to Be Known From the…
- The Passage where he attacks the ῾Ομοούσιον, and the contention in answer to it
- Proof That the Anomœan Teaching Tends to Manichæism
- A Passing Repetition of the Teaching of the Church
- Defence of S. Basil's Statement, Attacked by Eunomius, That the Terms 'Father'…
- Several Ways of Controverting His Quibbling Syllogisms
- Answer to the Question He is Always Asking, “Can He Who is Be Begotten?”
- His Unsuccessful Attempt to Be Consistent With His Own Statements After Basil…
- The Thing That Follows is Not the Same as the Thing That it Follows
- Explanation of 'Ungenerate,' and a 'Study' of Eternity
Book 2
- Book 2
- Gregory Then Makes an Explanation at Length Touching the Eternal Father, the…
- Gregory Proceeds to Discuss the Relative Force of the Unnameable Name of the…
- He Next Skilfully Confutes the Partial, Empty and Blasphemous Statement of…
- He Next Marvellously Overthrows the Unintelligible Statements of Eunomius Which…
- He Then Shows the Unity of the Son With the Father and Eunomius' Lack of…
- Gregory Further Shows That the Only-Begotten Being Begotten Not Only of the…
- He Further Very Appositely Expounds the Meaning of the Term “Only-Begotten,“…
- Gregory Again Discusses the Generation of the Only-Begotten, and Other…
- He Explains the Phrase “The Lord Created Me,” and the Argument About the…
- After Expounding the High Estate of the Almighty, the Eternity of the Son, and…
- He Thus Proceeds to a Magnificent Discourse of the Interpretation of…
- He Expounds the Passage of the Gospel, “The Father Judgeth No Man,” and Further…
- He Proceeds to Discuss the Views Held by Eunomius, and by the Church, Touching…
- Lastly He Displays at Length the Folly of Eunomius, Who at Times Speaks of the…
Book 3
- Book 3
- He Then Once More Excellently, Appropriately, and Clearly Examines and Expounds…
- He Then Shows, From the Instance of Adam and Abel, and Other Examples, the…
- He Thus Shows the Oneness of the Eternal Son With the Father the Identity of…
- He Discusses the Incomprehensibility of the Divine Essence, and the Saying to…
- Thereafter He Expounds the Appellation of “Son,” and of “Product of…
- Then He Ends the Book With an Exposition of the Divine and Human Names of the…
Book 4
- Book 4
- He Convicts Eunomius of Having Used of the Only-begotten Terms Applicable to…
- He then again admirably discusses the term πρωτότοκος as it is four times…
- He Proceeds Again to Discuss the Impassibility of the Lord's Generation; and…
- He Again Shows Eunomius, Constrained by Truth, in the Character of an Advocate…
- He Then Exposes Argument About the “Generate,” and the “Product of Making,” and…
- He Then Clearly and Skilfully Criticises the Doctrine of the Impossibility of…
- He Proceeds to Show That There is No “Variance” in the Essence of the Father…
- Then, Distinguishing Between Essence and Generation, He Declares the Empty and…
Book 5
- Book 5
- He Then Explains the Phrase of S. Peter, “Him God Made Lord and Christ.” And…
- A Remarkable and Original Reply to These Utterances, and a Demonstration of the…
- He Shows the Falsehood of Eunomius' Calumnious Charge That the Great Basil Had…
- Thereafter He Shows That There Are Not Two Christs or Two Lords, but One Christ…
Book 7
- Book 7
- He Then Declares That the Close Relation Between Names and Things is Immutable…
- Thereafter He Discusses the Divergence of Names and of Things, Speaking, of…
- He Says That All Things That Are in Creation Have Been Named by Man, if, as is…
- After Much Discourse Concerning the Actually Existent, and Ungenerate and Good…
Book 8
- Book 8
- He Then Discusses the “Willing” of the Father Concerning the Generation of the…
- Then, Thus Passing Over What Relates to the Essence of the Son as Having Been…
- He Further Shows the Operations of God to Be Expressed by Human Illustrations…
- Then, After Showing That the Person of the Only-begotten and Maker of Things…
Book 11
- Book 11
- He Also Ingeniously Shows From the Passage of the Gospel Which Speaks of “Good…
- He Then Exposes the Ignorance of Eunomius, and the Incoherence and Absurdity of…
- After This, Fearing to Extend His Reply to Great Length, He Passes by Most of…
- Eunomius Again Speaks of the Son as Lord and God, and Maker of All Creation…
Book 12
- Book 12
- Then Referring to the Blasphemy of Eunomius, Which Had Been Refuted by the…
- He Further Proceeds Notably to Interpret the Language of the Gospel, “In the…
- He then again charges Eunomius with having learnt his term ἀγεννησία from the…
- Then, Again Discussing the True Light and Unapproachable Light of the Father…
Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
Introduction & Notes
Answer to Eunomius' Second Book